Bergman family from Merzen,Osnabrück,Germany

There are many Bergman families, originaly most from Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. As far as we have discovered our Bergman family name was originally BORGMAN (German title for people who defended the village and protected the inhabitants of Merzen (an historic town dating back to the Roman occupation and even long before in the ice time) part of the Osnabrück District in Germany. After a long period of wars the verdict of Münster was signed in 1647 and people could live in peace. Since most people lived in poverty many looked for a better life. Consequently our forfather Jacobus Dircksz Borgman looked for a better life in Holland which at that time had a heathy economy: "Golden Age"